On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Dan Winship wrote:

> None of the people doing serious hacking on NetBSD/macppc have a
> Sawtooth G4 right now, so no one has made it work yet. (Although it's
> been pointed out that the right way to make it work is to use RTAS to
> configure the PCI bus.)

Actually that's not quite true.

The problem is that the AGP bus, a bunch of the internal stuff, and I
think the real PCI bus all are labeled as bus 0, but you have to use
different configuration areas to communicate with them.

Our pci code (and I think Linux's also) doesn't support that. I spoke with
Jason, though, and the alpha PCI code has supported that since day 1. So
we can get things working with native (non RTAS) pci support. :-)

All we need are a sawtooth-based machine in the hands of a developer, and
Jason (who is in vacation until next week).

Take care,

Bill